OH in writer chat: it's only a drawer if it pops up in front of the background elements. otherwise it's just a sparkling resizeable side panel :P

in case you were under the impression the occupation of Minneapolis was over

s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 4mo ago

The feds are once again targeting Somali-run daycares in Minneapolis, a reminder that they're always going to slink back to their nonsense when they think no one is looking.

I was thinking "blame AI" is the new "blame the junior/new hire". But it's really so much worse, isn't it?

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr... “It’s the ai’s fault!” it is not the AI’s fault. It’s your fault for choosing to continually use a hammer to handle glass and then being surprised pikachu face when things get smashed. We’ve already seen this play out multiple times. Why is ANYONE surprised?!

Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds — backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue

PocketOS founder blames ‘Cursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6’ plus Railway’s infrastructure for data disaster.

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I can not tell you how I feel this in my bitter, black soul. I have spent the last week teaching an AI to do shit that people with a fundamental grasp of English understand. Today I had to mediate between 2 agents that were fighting about placement of information. Spoiler: both places were wrong.

swirlOsquirrel@swirlosquirrel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Technical Writing then: We’re hiring you to write clear instructions to non-technical audiences Technical Writing now: We’re hiring you to write clear instructions to a robot

It is f***ing nuts right now. "You MUST use AI in your job, by the way we're going to replace you with AI, we don't actually know what your job is or what you really do," it's like a magic circle of crap.

Project Hail Mary was just as good the second time.

Not much. Just a little hyper fixation.

Husband pulled up a “guess the spaceship” quiz and .. I did not expect to see Nell. I don’t think I’ve see that ship in 40 years and I still knew it instantly.

Purity culture, which lets be honest, has been plaguing the US in some form or another since the beginning, warps sex, making it violent or forbidden or something to be used against people. Sex, if you enjoy it, is simply part of being human. Moralizing sex fucks people up.

Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 8mo ago

I'm gonna be real: many many times when I've watched a sexy TV show and gone "oh wow, this is being surprisingly normal and positive about sex!" I later found out it was a Canadian production. I have *never* thought that about HBO. If I'm uncomfortable and sad, I check to see if it's HBO.

The core of the MAGA-GOP is not understanding the difference between apologizing for being white and being sorry for what has been and is being done in the name of whiteness (which they consider fair and “natural”).

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"

Who could have seen this coming except literally everyone share.google/GFaMy3K2Jjlo...

South Korea's Experiment in AI Textbooks Ends in Disaster

The South Korean government's billion-dollar AI textbook initiative has been a complete failure from start to finish.

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Books With Pictures is wonderful, and needs some help.

Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now, organized by Katie Pryde

Dear friends: I need your help. I’m proud of everything Books with Pictures… Katie Pryde needs your support for Keep Books with Pictures Alive: Donate Now

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Big “we vibe coded the safety features” energy www.dexerto.com/entertainmen...

AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright - Dexerto

The AWS outage caused chaos for owners of Eight Sleep’s Pod3 mattresses as they had no offline mode and were stuck at high temperatures.

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every freakin time.

Effin' Birds@effinbirds.com · 11mo ago

Not just apps and software. I wasn’t joking when I said a year or so ago that I hoped everyone responsible for an important data set had a pre-2022 snapshot and a plan for how to cope with rolling back to it eventually.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 11mo ago

AI is just microplastics for software. It's polluted every app and slowly killing them.

coworker: do you have an example of this very specific behavior that's causing me problems with the markdown? Me: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. *30 seconds* Here, there's multiple of those in this 1500 line page lol, sob.

The right's concern with "cancel culture" is the same as their concern with everything else: They don't like it when they are not in control of it.

In other not exactly news, I read my 50 book goal for the year and I’m managing to continue. I’ve read some of Martha Wells Raksura books (because while I’m hyper focused on Murderbot, she has other works). Also just finished @scalzi.com ‘s _Old Man’s War_ which was not at all what I expected.

Today’s arts & crafts entry: a Murderbot. I printed it last week, decided today to do some painting. I don’t have a small enough brush to get the lines on the mask and chest logo. STL file here: www.printables.com/model/139315... When it’s dry, it goes on my desk. Cc @marthawells.com :)

Spotify Dj starting my Monday morning with a drinking song is such a mood.

Because the current cultural argument isn’t about sex; it’s about sex as a scoring mechanism for domination. Men who are sexually fulfilled without domination can be dismissed as lucky chads, deluded simps, doomed libertines, or any other dodge. In this conversation, “getting laid” is only a proxy.

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · last yr.

Why isn’t bell hooks’s writing around men and love not seen as a progressive text on how men can get laid, i.e., form healthy romantic relationships with people in their lives?

IDK who needs to know this but... You can sing the Sesame Street song "Rubber Ducky" but change the first line to "Motherfucker, burn in hell" and it works PERFECTLY

Just got out of Fantastic Four! It was fun, did enjoy.

MUCH EXCITE. If you like Murderbot, and are looking for something to read and are down for some cozy fantasy, grab the other two of @travisbaldree.bsky.social ‘s books in this world before this one comes out in Nov :)

Zeno Agency@zenoagency.bsky.social · last yr.

BRIGANDS & BREADKNIVES by @travisbaldree.bsky.social is currently a SFF Spotlight Title on @netgalley.bsky.social! www.netgalley.com/catalog/cate... Due to be published by @torbooks.bsky.social on November 11th.

achievement unlocked! I managed to figure out how to cut the stickers out with the cameo! The company logo ones didn’t come out as well because it cut all the lines and I need to figure out how to just do the outside ones. But, progress! ❤️ murderbot

Cats are great! I wish this one would STOP LICKING THE CUTTING MAT.

I don’t think I put these up because I’m fighting with the cameo but I’m also playing with stickers

Trying to put a few fun things into the world because.. yeah. I made my murderbot company earrings yesterday and then said “well, uh, what next?” Then I remembered I’d made mass effect paragon/renegade coasters I could shrink down. Also, playing with chainmail stuff.

And now I have myself a set of logo earrings, because I can. The detail is a little odd just because this is small and I’m using a .4 nozzle, but anyone who can see that detail and wants to comment on it is either: standing too close, or a fellow printer nerd.